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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
ime of man-stealing, ordered the negroes to be restored, at the public charge, to their native country, with a letter expressing the indignation of the general court at their wrongs. Colony Laws, c. XII When George Fox visited Barbadoes in 1671, he 1671. enjoined it upon the planters, that they should deal mildly and gently with their negroes; and that, after certain years of servitude, they should make them free. The idea of George Fox had been anticipated by the fellow-citizens of Gorton and Roger Williams. Nearly 1652. May 18. twenty years had then elapsed, since the representatives of Providence and Warwick, perceiving the disposition of people in the colony to buy negroes, and hold them as slaves forever, had enacted that no black mankind should, by covenant, bond, or otherwise, be held to perpetual service; the master, at the end of ten years, shall set them free, as the manner is with English servants; and that man that will not let his slave go free, or shall sell hi
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ns of the synod; the copious Winthrop; the Documents in Hutchinson's Coll.; Werde's Rise, Reign, and Ruin; T. Shepherd's Lamentation; a fragment of Wheelwright's Sermon; and the statement of John Cotton himself, in his reply to Williams; also, Saml. Gorton, Hubbard, C. Mather, Neal, Hutchinson, Callender, Backus, Savage, and Knowles. The principles of Anne Hutchinson were a natural consequence of the progress of the reformation. She had imbibed them in Europe; and it is a singular fact, though inthrop could err as to facts; see i. 296, and Savage's note. The records refute Winthrop's statement. to the settlement of Roger Williams, and from thence joined her friends on the island, sharing with them the hardships of early emigrants. Gorton, in Hutchinson, i. 73. Her powerful mind still continued its ac- Chap. IX.} tivity; young men from the colonies became converts to her opinions; and she excited such admiration, that to the leaders in Massachusetts it gave cause of suspicion of
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
ith the decision of an independent state. Samuel Gorton, a wild but benevolent enthusiast, who usection of that state. Winthrop, II. 120—123. Gorton and his partisans did not disguise their scornjority of the deputies, was more merciful, and Gorton and his associates were imprisoned. It is theterritory was not immediately abandoned. On Gorton, see Eliot, in III. Mass. Hist. Coll. iv. 136n, b. II. c. XXIII. XXIV. Lechford, 41, 42. Gorton, in II. Mass. Hist Coll. VIII. 68—70. Morton, 202—206. Gorton, in Hutchinson., App. XX. Hubbard, 343, 344. 401—407. and 500—512. Hazard, i.49. Baylies, N. P. i. c. XII. Best of all is Gorton's own account, with the accurate commentary ofarfare the fate of the captive was death. Yet Gorton and his friends, who held their lands by a graion in III. Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 161 and ff Gorton, in Staples's edition, 154 and ff. See the opihose authority they labored to enlarge. For Gorton had carried his complaints to the mother 1